Anthropic Claude + HubSpot

The CRM that waits for salespeople is dead

We use Anthropic’s Claude to build a HubSpot CRM that updates itself, interprets your ERP and runs your revenue plan around the clock.

Slack · example
C
Claude

The Northwind renewal hasn't moved in 14 days. What happened on the last call?

JM
Jamie, Account Executive

They want a 3-year quote. Decision by end of month.

✓ Written to HubSpotStage, next step, close date and call summary updated

Certified

Anthropic Claude Partner Network

Elite

HubSpot Solutions Partner

10+

Claude Certified Architects

900+

customers in Europe and the US

The problem

Your CRM has been lying to you

On any sales team, half the reps log everything and half log as little as they can. So your pipeline, forecast, win rates and attribution are all built on half the activity, and leaders take those numbers into the boardroom.

That’s why so many executives never believed in CRM spend. A traditional CRM only records how selling should work, and only if the team follows it. With Claude, the CRM no longer has to wait for them.

An incomplete CRM is worse than an empty one. An empty CRM tells you it knows nothing. An incomplete one looks like the truth.

What we build

Stop chasing reps. Build a CRM that chases for you.

When a deal stalls and the record is empty, Claude asks the salesperson in Slack and writes the answer into the right HubSpot fields. Nobody opens the CRM. Nobody chases.

We apply the same pattern to inboxes, call notes, documents, service tickets and delivery updates, and refresh account data from the web, so your team spends its time selling.

How a CRM built with Claude compares with a traditional CRM
AreaTraditional CRMCRM built with Claude
Who updates itReps, when they rememberClaude, from Slack, email and documents
How complete it isAs complete as your least disciplined repAs complete as the systems around it
ERP dataRaw rows nobody readsTasks, alerts and risk scores
What leaders getReports that only look completeA daily test of their sales hypothesis
The manager's jobChasing updatesCoaching and closing

ERP intelligence

Raw ERP data is noise. Interpreted, it's a sales manager that never sleeps.

Most ERP integrations stop at the sync, leaving rows of numbers nobody in sales reads. We connect HubSpot with Business Central, Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations and NetSuite, then put Claude in between to decide what should happen and hand out the work.

The same data ties marketing to revenue: which campaigns bring in the customers who spend the most. It’s attribution a CFO will accept.

When the ERP shows…Claude…
A customer who reorders every six weeks hasn't ordered in tenCreates a follow-up task for the right salesperson
A renewal is close and order volume has droppedFlags the account as at risk and alerts the owner
They buy the equipment but never the consumablesOpens a cross-sell opportunity
Order values shrink quarter on quarterUpdates the risk score leadership reports on, with a plain-language summary

Example

40 hours a week back from RFP admin

For a company that wins much of its business through RFPs, every response used to be read, assessed, stock-checked and written by hand. Now a Claude workflow watches the RFP inbox, decides which are a good fit, checks ERP stock, drafts the response and opens a deal in HubSpot for the right salesperson.

Even at the same win rate, that’s a growth engine running next to the CRM all the time.

4 hrs

saved per salesperson, per week

40 hrs

a week back across a team of 10

~20

RFPs a week of capacity, up from 4–5

Also: for a multi-channel retailer, Claude matches in-store purchases to the phone and in-home quotes behind them, so every salesperson gets credit for the sales they drive.

How it works

Six links, every build

Every Claude build follows the same chain, and each link has to hold.

01

Capture

Pull context from inboxes, Slack, documents, ERP and the web.

02

Interpret

Work out what it means, using your leadership’s rules.

03

Place

Write it into the right HubSpot records and fields.

04

Act

Create tasks, open deals, assign owners, draft messages.

05

Report

Feed the dashboards leadership already uses.

06

Govern

Run inside agreed rules on what AI can read and write.

Why Claude

We went all in on Claude. Here's why.

The right model for each job

Fast, low-cost models sort high volumes of data. More capable models handle judgment, like drafting a proposal. You never pay top-model prices for simple work.

Context beyond the CRM

HubSpot’s agents can only see what’s in HubSpot. Claude brings in email, documents, ERP and point-of-sale data, and puts it in the right place.

Model + Context + Application

A frontier model, the full context of your business, and an application built around a real problem. Agents are only as good as the context underneath them.

Claude is our pick, not a religion. If you’ve standardized on OpenAI, Microsoft Copilot or local models, we’ll build with those. The design, governance and team stay the same.

What we believe

AI in revenue, done properly

  • Adoption is a design problem. If the CRM only works when people remember to update it, it was built wrong.
  • A chatbot is not an AI strategy. The value is in intelligence built into the systems that run revenue.
  • AI is a project, not a side hobby. Left to one curious person in the background, it stalls at 80% done.
  • Prove it before you roll it out. Proof of value first, then an integrated rollout.

Governance

A human signs off on anything customers see

We build on Anthropic’s commercial services, which by default don’t train on your inputs or outputs. During Design and Strategy we agree exactly what AI can touch, and build those rules into the system.

Can readAgreed systems and records
Can writeSpecific HubSpot fields
Runs itselfInternal records, tasks, alerts
Needs a personAnything a customer sees

Getting started

Start with the process that hurts most

You don’t need to automate everything on day one.

Most clients

Already on HubSpot

Start with a proof of value on your own data, then Design and Strategy, build, hypercare, and growth with our GTM engineering or RevOps team.

In progress

Implementing HubSpot

AI goes into the same project, under the same project manager. Claude workflows go live with the CRM.

Starting out

New to HubSpot

LaunchRight, our industry onboarding package, gets you live on a proven setup that AI can build on later.

Every project is led by a consultant with 50+ projects delivered, built by AI and integration engineers, and reviewed by directors with up to 30 years of CRM experience.

Questions

Claude and HubSpot FAQs

Anthropic recognizes Periti as a partner trained and certified to design and deliver Claude solutions for businesses. More than 10 of our team hold the Claude Certified Architect, Professional credential. Combined with HubSpot Elite Solutions Partner status, it means one team covers the CRM and the AI.

Claude sits alongside HubSpot as an intelligence layer. It pulls context from systems HubSpot can’t see, interprets it and writes it into the right place in HubSpot. It can also create tasks, open deals and assign work based on rules agreed with you.

HubSpot’s agents work well inside HubSpot, and we use them. Claude reaches beyond the CRM and brings in the context HubSpot is missing. Agents are only as good as the context underneath them.

It can remove most of the need for it. Claude asks salespeople for updates in Slack, captures information from email and calls, and writes it into HubSpot without anyone logging in. Leadership gets complete data, and managers stop chasing.

Yes. We connect the ERP to HubSpot and use Claude to interpret the data, not just move it. It spots missed reorders, renewal risk and cross-sell gaps, then assigns tasks to the right salesperson and feeds leadership reporting.

Yes. For one client, a workflow that reads RFPs, checks fit and ERP stock, drafts the response and opens a deal in HubSpot saves each of 10 salespeople 4 hours a week. It also gives the team capacity for around 20 RFPs a week instead of 4 or 5.

By default, no. Anthropic’s commercial services, which we build on, don’t use customer inputs or outputs to train its models. We also agree rules with you about what AI can read, write and send.

Not in anything we build. Internal records update automatically. Anything that goes to a customer is approved by a person first.

Yes. We recommend Claude for most revenue work, but if you’ve standardized on another platform or need local models, we’ll build with those. The design and governance stay the same.

You can, and some companies do it well. More often, a capable junior person works without a mandate or project manager and the work stalls at 70 or 80% complete. We bring project management, AI expertise and integration engineering, with clear outcomes from the start.

See what Claude could do with your data

Tell us where your CRM isn’t telling the truth or where your team loses hours to admin. We’ll show you what’s possible, starting with a proof of value.

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